Monday, June 25, 2007

A group in Denmark burned three effigies of Mohammed (instead of a witch) at the traditional midsummer festival in an unnamed location. Since then the group that burned the effigies of the Prophet has contacted SIAD, who kindly uploaded a video of the event.

The next video will be released on July 23 and the final one on August 23. Those Danes made quite a production of the bonfire — the soundtrack has “Light My Fire” on it…

And I have learned, sometimes in difficult ways that to emulate the tactics of your enemies is to diminish your own cause, particularly when much of the conflict takes the form of ideas, images, and words.

Of course we will hear the standard elitism from the usual sources about the backwardness of rural folk.Of course this sensitivity is not extended to those of us who are annoyed at Commies burning the US Flag.